Haakon IV's great fleet of over 100 longships and warships assembled at Kerrera near Oban and sailed south through the Kintyre peninsula, demonstrating Norwegian naval power at its last great extent. Alexander III sent envoys to negotiate, deliberately delaying while the autumn storms gathered. The fleet's passage through the Clyde approaches was an impressive demonstration of Norse seapower but the strategic situation was changing: the storms that struck at Largs showed the fleet's vulnerability to Scottish weather.
Haakon IV fleet c.100+ ships, c.10,000–15,000 men; unopposed passage through Kintyre.
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